france's president manuel mccall is to sign a series of labor reforms into law today tens of thousands of people took to the streets on thursday to protest the changes the measures make it easier to hire and fire workers and allow small companies to negotiate directly with stuff rather than through trade unions hopes the reforms will help reduce france's unemployment rate currently at almost ten percent. so paris wants the french economy to pick up speed and come along and so do most entrepreneurs there let's get a closer look at what those changes to the labor market mean to the people on the ground to do w.'s lisa louise reports on the up and down sides of mccall signature reforms. all right it's looks like we don't have this reported the moment so another big topic this week of course germany's rust belt was in for a shock to some cope the country's biggest steel company announced it will join forces with india's tata steel that may put thousands of people out of work in an industrial heartland that's been in decline for decades glowing hot smelters smoking furness is not that is ge

saw back again here and and we had reaction not long after did speak from the french president manuel mccall and take a listen to what he had to say. i would like to speak in favor of the nuclear agreement with iran we put together a solid bust and verifiable agreement with iran that will ensure that iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. we're now on scene it would be a grave error. it would be irresponsible for us to fail to uphold the agreement. because this is a good agreement an agreement that is essential to peace at a time when a downward spiral cannot be discounted. be. excluded. so we've got the french president you know juxtaposing himself against the u.s. president so we've got this clash do you think so when you look at nikki haley for example the u.s. investor to the u.n. secretary of state television do you think this president wants the u.n. mission to be a failure do you think that the members of the u.n. do they believe him when he says that he wants the mission to be a success the iran tell you're not going to matter in general for the u.n. the entire u.n. i mean you see a

free flow of data in europe the leaders are also set to discuss proposals from french president manuel mccallon overhauling tax rules for digital giants like facebook and google . more of what's happening at this summit let's cross over to d.d. abuse max hoffman covering it for us in tal and max with the focus squarely on europe's digital future where you are right now walk away expect to come out of the talks there. well there are two movements here basically first of all you have the hosts stone you know who are sort of the poster boy of digitalisation in a digital society in the european union they want to unlock what they say is the digital potential of the european union and they're asking they're calling for a fifth freedom you know the european union is based on four freedoms and they want a fifth one which would be data and information to be able to cross borders without any kind of obstacles but that might be hijacked here today a little bit because germany italy and france want to talk about something else they want to talk about the taxation of digital of the digital economy for no

and we'll have more on that story as it develops of course the two fronts where the president manuel mccall is to sign a series of the labor reforms into law today tens of thousands of people took to the streets already yesterday to protest the changes the measures make it easier to hire and fire workers and allow small companies to negotiate directly with staff rather than through trade unions mccall hopes the reforms will help reduce france's unemployment rate currently at almost ten percent. but the french economy of course is a heavyweight in the e.u. so doesn't brussels support him across a labor market reforms. and gives us the view from brussels or common knowledge is that france need to do this because the economy has been slacking almost for decades unemployment is almost double what it is for example in germany and many experts blame that on the lack of labor flexibility it's too expensive for companies to fire people to get rid of them and if they try to do so that it's very expensive but if you look at other numbers of the pictures it is a little different for example productivi

schweitzer as well here from the german council on foreign relations because french president manuel mccall is set to deliver a key speech on his vision for the european union in a few moments a crowd has been gathering at the sorbonne university where he will soon speak he is expected to call for more cooperation on money matters and on terrorism and we will have a live coverage of that address by the french president we're just waiting for him to take the podium there in there said this is a speech that has been long awaited because mental mccaughan campaigned on a promise to reform the e.u. but he has been waiting until after the german elections to unveil his proposals let's talk about what to expect with daniela schwarzer from the german council on foreign relations as we said and we also have our correspondent. catherine martin standing by for us in paris with some analysis that catherine if you can hear me and let's start with you a man of mccoy's expected to a call for reform out what are people there anticipating in paris. what the french president is expected to lay out his vision

from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu but trump faced opposition from france president manuel mccall defended the nuclear deal he also stood up for the international climate accord despite trump's decision to withdraw from the agreement for the coolness of the when he goes he that agreement is not up for negotiation it binds us together taking it apart would mean taking apart a pact but it is not just between states but also between generation yes i fully respect the decision of the united states but the door will always be open or diplomatic editor james space has more from the united nations. donald trump is the thirteenth u.s. president to come here to address the u.n. and with the north korea crisis to tear rating he knew the world would be hanging on his every word the the message is really. it's a message of coming together but once he headed to the general assembly chamber he's excellent see donald trump he had a very different message delivering a speech that astonished many diplomats spying clue among precedented threat to another late another un member state the united stat